'Doer Upper'

The title relates to a favoured phrase used by real estate/estate agents. I love irony but they seemingly have no sense of this...

Here is the view that confronts you upon entering "The Prince of Wales". As I stood with my tripod trying to capture this, seemingly out of nowhere appeared a small bird. It perched for about ten seconds on the steel table (visible to the fore of the image) not more than 3 feet from me. It was strange but as we exchanged looks I felt that the creature was saying "Please, just leave" and then it fluttered off. I had a quick look as to where I guessed it had emerged. Lo and behold, behind some wallpaper that had fallen away from the wall and subsequently gathered along the dado rail, behind was a small nest with five eggs the exact size of "Cadbury's Mini Eggs". I shot this scene as quickly as I could so as to not disturb the creatures any longer.

Comments (5)

Not sure what it is about this, but it really draws you into the scene. Very cool effect. Real estate, I could never do that.ROB @ 2006-04-28 08:03:55

It was very thoughtful of you to leave the birds alone and I guess you are one committed photographers to stand under such a roof all for a shotnavin harish @ 2006-04-28 12:57:23

You're starting to sound rather dedicated, moochy :) This image gives a good frame of reference (something lacking from the previous one). The table merges into the mess a bit. That roof looks scary. The super wide-angle has done some nasty blurring on the outside of the frame here - stopping down some and doing a longer exposure would have helped with that.CurlyToes @ 2006-04-28 13:18:56

whoa raidical ceilingGary @ 2006-04-28 18:20:12

cool. I love the perspective that the ceiling draws through the image.blake @ 2006-05-08 03:16:59